Highlight of the week 

Martinez, Yolanda (Deactivated)

The first Regional Technical Workshop of the Initiative for Digital Government and Cybersecurity (IDGC) for the Horn of Africa.

• Djibouti: e-cabinet and construction permits were chosen. 

• Kenya and Somalia focal points were met.

All the info is in Jira and confluence (add links).

GovStack Road-Map 2022 & Meetings Calendar

1. Calendar

2. Goals for 2023

3. Publication rules

Martinez, Yolanda (Deactivated) Rachel Lawson (Unlicensed)

1. Calendar

• IGF: we have booth at the village.

• Digital Global: UA MoU will be signed.

• Advisory Board meeting : agenda draft was shared for steering members. Estonia will chair the meeting.

• on Nov 28^th is the launch of the Spanish version of SDG investment framework book.  

• TAC review on the Playbook review and then it will be published (this week).

2. Goals for 2023 - each partner will add its goals to XLS shared by GIZ to founding partner reps.

3. Publication rules - Notes will be in Confluence. Project roadmap can be also there in a semi live version.  Instead of slides we will have notes from next meeting. Rachel Lawson (Unlicensed)

Partnerships & Country Engagement

1. SierraLeone,Ukraine,HoA

2. Advisory Board meeting

3. Country engagement

Martinez, Yolanda (Deactivated)

1. SierraLeone,Ukraine,HoA

   • Jake Watson SierraLeone – DIAL has contacts there. They want to work in working groups. It will be brought up in the technical committee.

     • Martinez, Yolanda (Deactivated) There is an e-mail about how gov experts can join. Lets take another look at this

   • Ukraine - 1.12 at Digital Global event MoU will be signed. There are matters to discuss further regarding Diia app and registry BB.

   • HoA priortisation is done. Codesign sessions outcomes will be shared. Djibouti: e-cabinet and construction permits were chosen. 

2. Advisory Board meeting - New Advisory Board members: Madhukar & Pramod

3. Playbook - TAC review will be done on GitBook. DIAL: don’t see Playbook as a GovStack BB. We should decide where it should nest. Will be taken to governance committee.

4. Country engagement - There is a separate work happening regarding how to engage private sector and various countries to GS. Logics are being drafted and then shared with the steering for review. Moritz Fromageot Martinez, Yolanda (Deactivated) Margus Mägi

Building blocks – Product & technical committee 

Wes Brown
Jake Watson

1. Product (Wes Brown ). Continue on use cases. Sandbox works support use cases. Its the center of work currently. Broader team will have a chance to contribute next week. Sandbox team will present its work in the next Product meeting.

2. Technical (Jake Watson ) – Jira backlog has an actionable roadmap now. In future, we will look at the dashboards from Jira. There are 3 groups who are not yet well engaged on Tech com work. We are getting to engage with them more. DIAL will add 3 more people to mow down the backlog. Everything is in Jira.

Sandbox progress

Nico Lueck

No major update.

Call for review has happend for the functional requirements:

Functional Scope of the Sandbox

Work on devliverables of the current sprint can be followed, for example, here

Architecture

Use cases - Workflow - BB Mapping

Community Building and overall resourcing

 Nico Lueck

•  Feedback opportunities for community member and dedicated role for this (Nico Lueck )

  • We need to address community aspects raised by people. There needs to have a face or channel on how to address issues. Rachel Lawson (Unlicensed) is the person to contact when there are concerns about anything, she will channel further. If any issue, write to info@govstack.global

• Please help to create an organizational chart (Nico Lueck )Org. Chart of GovStack Initiative  

  • Roadmap: https://govstack-global.atlassian.net/jira/plans/3/scenarios/3?vid=12#plan/backlog

Communications

Arielle Diamond

Comms feedback survey. Please take a moment to let us know your thoughts! https://itustat.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0Bbt9hzSwSvsIC2  

Coming up in Events

• Internet Governance Forum (28 Nov – 2 Dec) GovStack session new concept: Digital Infrastructure as a Basis for Resilience and Social Inclusion. Panelists still being finalized.

• BMZ's Digital Global event, (1 Dec) GovStack session on Digital Infrastructure to Reinforce Resilience featuring

Editorial Calendar

• Digital Leaders spotlight: Visor Urbano

• Next up: Digital Leaders spotlight: Digital Investment Window

• 2022 Year in Review

Video – we will be sharing a draft script & storyboard soon with an opportunity to give input

Website – we've selected our vendor and are moving forward with contracting. In the meantime, we'll be working with all of you on some short-term content changes and updates to the website.

Building our mailing list!

AOB:

1. Co-develop meeting;

2. research

Martinez, Yolanda (Deactivated)

•Research: strategy-setting via survey / synthesis on topline research areas, potential partnership based on research alignment (TalTech, UNU, etc.)

•Co-develop meeting with Tim and Favid